Stata The Stata listserver
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date index][Thread index]

st: the impute command


From   "Robert Bozick" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: the impute command
Date   Wed, 19 May 2004 10:56:22 -0400

Hello -

I have a few questions concerning the impute command.

I am trying to impute values to a dichotomous variable coded 1 if individuals were employed and 0 if they were not.

First, does the impute command treat all the predictor variables in the same way that a regression command does? More specifically, if I am using a set of dummy variables, do I omit one category? I ask this because I was doing some test runs and I included ALL variables in the impute command and it did not give me the message "variable was dropped due to collinearity."

Second, is there a way to specify the impute command to round imputed values either to 1 or 0 depending on the prediction (e.g. predicted values 0 - .49 become 0 and values .50-1 become 1) ?

Thanks!
Robert

_________________________________________________________________
Best Restaurant Giveaway Ever! Vote for your favorites for a chance to win $1 million! http://local.msn.com/special/giveaway.asp

*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/




© Copyright 1996–2024 StataCorp LLC   |   Terms of use   |   Privacy   |   Contact us   |   What's new   |   Site index